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Peer reviewedLobao, Linda M.; Brown, Lawrence A. – Social Forces, 1998
Data from the 1990 Ecuadorian census indicate that expected fertility-reducing effects of women's education, student status, and labor force participation were lessened in the Amazon as a consequence of its family-based economy, class structure, and high-fertility demographic regime. Development of the extractive periphery in Ecuador is…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Context Effect, Developing Nations, Economic Development
